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John Robson
True Canadian values for a complex world
Wish I'd said that - July 16, 2019

“It’s easy to be brilliant if you are not bothered about being right.”

“Hector McNeil (1907-55)” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail Feb. 19, 2007

Education, Famous quotes, LifeJohn RobsonJuly 16, 2019
Wish I'd said that - July 15, 2019

“I thought I was going to seize the day… but the day seized me instead.”

Jon looking very miserable in Garfield in Ottawa Citizen Nov. 12, 2004

Arts & culture, Famous quotes, Humour, LifeJohn RobsonJuly 15, 2019
Wish I'd said that - July 14, 2019

“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”

Benjamin Franklin, quoted on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/51600-many-a-man-thinks-he-is-buying-pleasure-when-he)

Famous quotes, History, Life, Philosophy, Religion, United StatesJohn RobsonJuly 14, 2019
Wish I'd said that - July 13, 2019

“Three consecutive years in a row”

Commentator on TSN during the World Junior Gold Medal hockey game between Canada and Sweden Jan. 4, 1993

Arts & culture, Famous quotes, HumourJohn RobsonJuly 13, 2019
Wish I'd said that - July 12, 2019

“The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.”

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 No. 2 (Oct.-Nov. 2000)

Famous quotes, Life, ReligionJohn RobsonJuly 12, 2019
Robson on National Post Radio with Emily Jackson on Iran - July 10, 2019
Columns, Government, History, International, Israel, Military, National Post, United StatesJohn RobsonJuly 11, 2019
Iran doesn't have the whip hand

In my latest National Post column I deplore the conventional wisdom that in any showdown between Iran and the West, it is the West that lacks attractive options and must find some face-saving way to give in.

Columns, Government, International, Israel, Military, National Post, Terrorism, United StatesJohn RobsonJuly 11, 2019
Wish I'd said that - July 11, 2019

“After more than two thousand years, the mothers of India still frighten their naughty children by telling them that ‘Iskander will get them,’ and Iskander is none other than Alexander the Great…”

Hendrik Van Loon The Story of Mankind

Famous quotes, History, InternationalJohn RobsonJuly 11, 2019
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